Kraus Curriculum Development Library OnlineU of C Only KCDL Online is a searchable database that provides curriculum information on a broad variety of subjects covered in PreK-12 and Adult Basic Education. It includes citations for over 7,000 curriculum documents and contact information on the agencies that issue the curricula. Over 3000 full-text documents are available in the collection. Curriculum documents not available in full-text may be available on microfiche via the Library's interlibrary loan service.
ERICU of C Only The ERIC database includes some curriculum materials. To focus your search on these items, use the Advanced Search option, selecting the "Publication Type" limit. There are several different limits that relate to curriculum materials, including "Creative Works" , "Guides- - All", "Guides - Classroom - Learners", "Guides - Classroom - Teacher Materials", "Guides - Classroom - General Materials", "Guides - Non-Classroom", and "Test/Questionnaires". There is also a limit for Education Level. For more information, view ERIC's help guide.
Educator's Reference Desk The Educator's Reference Desk includes a searchable database of lesson plans, a question archive, as well as links to a variety of education resources.
Mathematics Education Database = MATHDIU of C Only This database provides the indexing contained in the documents section of the publication Zentralblatt für Didaktik der Mathematik (ZDM) / International Reviews on Mathematical Education, published by the European Mathematical Society. Approximately 50% of the content focuses on journal literature, however the remainder of the citations are to a wide array of materials: textbooks, research reports, conference papers, dissertations, curriculum guides, audiovisual materials, software, and monographs including citations for individual chapters. The database utilizes a specialized Mathematics Education Subject Classification (MESC) scheme that includes a digit representing the grade or difficulty level of the material.
Teacher Reference Center This index of over 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books is now also offered free via the EBSCOhost platform. This database provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics, and more for K-12 Teachers & Librarians.
Other Resources
Awesome Library: K-12 Education Directory This is a directory of reviewed educational web sites useful for parents, students, and teachers. The site is organized into subject areas and in the teacher section, annotated links to lesson plans are included.
Blue Web'n Sponsored by Pacific Bell, Blue Web'n "is an online library of 1700+ outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (lessons, activities, projects, resources, references, & tools)." You can search for educational web sites using: Content Areas, Subject Area, and Grade Level. Each week 5 new sites are added and an email alerting service is available.
Edsitement "The Best of the Humanities on the Web" is offered by the National Endowment for the Humanities in partnership with the National Trust for the Humanities, and the MarcoPolo Education Foundation. The web site offers annotated links to online humanities resources from museums, libraries, cultural institutions, universities and more. Subject categories covered are art and culture, foreign languages, history and social studies, and literature and language arts.
Education World Sponsored by American Fidelity Assurance Company, this web site bills itself as "The Educator's Best Friend." A wide array of resources are available including a World Schools Directory, lesson plans, professional development and career information, reviews of Internet resources for various subjects, and technology tips.
Educator's Reference Desk: Lesson Plans This site contains the archive of more than 2000 unique lesson plans which previously were written and submitted to AskERIC by teachers from all over the United States. You can browse by subject area and a search can be restricted by grade level. Also available is a Write-A-Lesson-Plan Guide.
Library of Congress Learning Page This site includes a number of guides, lesson plans and resources to assist teachers in utilizing the various American Memory collections. It also includes annotated links to additional web sites.
Thinkfinity Free educational resources, funded by the Verizon Foundation.
OurDocuments.gov Hosted by the U.S. National Archives and Records Adminstration, this site offers full text of significant documents in American History along with a teacher's toolbox with activities, bibliographies and more.
PBS TeacherSource Thousands of lesson plans and activities, organized in broad topics such as Health and Fitness and Social Studies. Also monthly themes, Concepts Across the Curriculum.
Teachers.net This web site for teachers focuses on providing networking opportunities such as chat rooms and live online meetings. It includes lesson plans and curriculum resources.
Basic Learning Materials This is a UNESCO Education for All initiative to assist in the preparation and distribution of instructional materials in the developing world. It works to strengthen national infrastructures of the "book sector" and to generate a wide range of reading materials needed by a literate society. UNESCO defines "book sector" as a "term used to describe the holistic view of all aspects and activities that touch upon the writing, publishing, production and printing, distribution, sale, promotion and utilization of books and other printed materials." The web site includes detailed information about this initiative, research reports and surveys, and programmatic assistance such as A Guide to Sustainable Book Provision and a Handbook for Writers of Children's Books.
